What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

I’m reading a great book about success by Dr. Tina Seelig, a Stanford University Neuroscience Professor. The book, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20” has been a bestseller and was number one at the bookstore in Marunouchi. On a whim, I decided to pick it up. It’s proved to be more than well worth the buy.

She talks a lot about how to see a problem as an opportunity and how to disregard the impossible. She also focuses on challenging assumptions that others make, and how this is a true mark for those who will be successful in business and in life. She discusses her own successes and failures, what she learned from them, and how we can follow her (and many other successful peoples’) examples. The book shares several great case studies and some of the exercises that she teaches in her business and entrepreneurship classes. She also cites several other peoples’ success stories and ties them together neatly with some of the common themes mentioned above.

I feel like every part I read is something inspiring. A lot of what she writes just makes sense. It makes me realize that sometimes the best solutions are the most simple, but not always the most obvious.

Lately, my life has been filled with some ups and downs. However, I have the potential to use some of her advice in the near future with my new business. I want to hit the ground running and devote my energy into this new opportunity. While I’ve learned a lot about myself (over the past year especially), I’m still making mistakes and failing in certain areas of my life. But, I feel this book offers me some new perspectives and I hope I can get my life together and move it in a positive direction. Here goes.